ICES and other partners in the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Support Action (AORA-CSA) as well as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), are participating in the three-day meeting.

A selected Editor’s Choice piece from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month read about how insurance concepts allow evaluations of trade-offs between economic gains and risks for an anchovy stock.

September tutorial will immerse students in a world of assessment techniques for data limited stocks. Here, instructors Jim Berkson, Anne Cooper, and Jason Cope answer questions on the course and what students can expect to get from it.

The ICES Annual Science Conference (ASC) 2015, which took place last September in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been awarded the best 2015 Copenhagen conference with less than 1000 participants at the Copenhagen Congress and Event Awards.

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about the spatial synchrony and asynchrony of fish population distributions and modelling them in stock assessments.

Do you know someone who has contributed greatly to ICES work over a sustained period? If you feel a person’s efforts have been special, then why not consider putting them forward for the Outstanding Achievement Award?

The 6th ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium "New Challenges in a Changing Ocean" is taking place this week, 9-13 May, in Bergen, Norway, and ICES news will feature a selection of articles from keynote speakers throughout the week.

​​​​Does climate change matter for zooplankton production in upwelling systems? This is the question Ruben Escribano​ asked participants on the second day of the 6th ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium.

Discovering the new through scrutiny of the old: Sanae Chibae presents the Odate Collection and future of zooplankton monitoring in the global observation initiatives at the ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium.

"Zooplankton are absolutely fundamental to marine ecosystems. If we are to understand the effects of marine ecosystems changes, we first have to unveil the complex zooplankton mechanisms", says Peter Wiebe.

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month read about the effects of different strategies for restoring overfished stocks.

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the phenomenon of a reproductive skew in Japanese sardine and how it leads to an alternative theory of population abundances fluctuation.

What do you get when an economist and an ecologist talk about the ocean? Besides an interesting discussion, it is likely there will be some consideration of how to solve many of the problems facing marine ecosystems around the world.

​Following two previously succesful conferences, ICES and PICES have joined forces again to bring together the upcoming generation of marine scientists in the Republic of Korea next year. Here, we speak to some of the organizers.

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study of the process known as genetic introgression in wild Atlantic salmon populations in Norway.

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Read about a study that looks at an alternative method for spatial reference points feeding into groundfish management.

How can long-term predictions of the physical environment be translated into predictions about biological outcomes? And can this knowledge be worked into marine resource management? This will be explored in Theme Session I at the ASC, starting on Monday.

The Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity and ICES are enhancing collaboration. The agreement establishes that the two secretariats will, among other things, exchange experience and knowledge in marine and coastal biological diversity.

The subject of marine bioinvasions was put on the agenda with Chad Hewitt elaborating on the current state of understanding the knowledge gap that creates levels of uncertainty when it comes to assessing the level of impact.

A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about a study looking into the effectiveness of stakeholder and scientist cooperation in modelling management strategies.

Acclaimed talk at this year’s ASC tells the story of the genetic and phenotypic impact of size-selective harvesting on a fish stock and how underlying molecular workings drive the phenomenon of fisheries-induced evolution.

The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study on the successes and challenges of the ecosystem approach to management from those working in different marine sectors.

The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study of the Pacific oyster and the role ocean acidification plays in how its metabolic energy is allocated and in shell formation.

The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the use of a game theory model to define the conditions under which fish sex changes occur.